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VOLUME II—NUMBER 17.
Z\\t |sr?)uftic Mcnvmtl
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
—A T—
THOMSON. GrJN.,
—B Y—
RONEY & SULLIVAN,
R A TES OF A D YER TISISG,
Transient artvcriUemeoU will be clnrgod one
dollar per square forth? first insertion,auJ seventy
fiVo cents for sii’‘StQiiput iuscrtioß.
BUSINESS G.VRBS.
E. S. HARRIS ON,
1 Miysielau aiul tSurgreoit
Offers hU serv e l '- to the |mluic. Office with Ur.
J. S. J>nes, over Me Cm and & llanlnwuv s
eprloiu3 Thomson, Ga.
J. • CQ.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
IBIWMBITi k UIIS
W * -ALSO—
Semi-l'liiii'i, C’reiic’i Oliiuat
«~S;s-,S’.rare, Arc.
244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga
nprLO ly.
m\. T. l>. LAM.KRSTEDT
OFFIUiS Hl?* 4
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
To the Citizens <>! Thoin oa *nJ \ Icimty.
11, can-bu fout.J a! ti, Unonj oy. f Cu.lcllo’., when
tot |»rotVsr>iauaUy ah.-out.
REFERS TO
rti ). JVFa .i‘ • « »• i)ol ' :, ‘ rY ’ Ull
Js.iis S. Cutt n Da. ti so : ■•'it,
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«<i Gt-c'.-ii Strout.
AUGUST A, GEORGIA.
Transient *L anoni Board-.ag.
jiv»3l Iv
GLO B S HOTEL.
g -.y. CORNET, - ' > IA KS< >N STS.,
AUGJSTA, mmL
JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs.
YiVI«-rW !•> <■<'» <!.■ ntivnlKm "f tlie
lu I :
h»> i « and i'W>ed on a foot
~.,1 in ti. ■ South. No esixm*! will be
v.,‘i .!.,■ ■•,",( ,1:. i House ill over-/
respect,judd to
and couvf C •><••• of ig*
o isr T* I JVE 3C
TILL Tlia ri.BV 3? NiVAnm
X WILL iui :.14i p1,.-i:.Ts and others in tvaut of
S Si <» E S
on City A , 'u! ul?', till Ist November next, at
ca-Ji pri< *’• 1 ■■•■■■■
apr 3 1«u.3 Au. uiata, Oa.
LUMBER. LUMBER. LUMBER!
VNY qualiti r.r ru.liiv oT lTu« Lumber de
livered at Thom-on, or .It Mile Tost on the
tievigia Kailioart, luiv fur en-ii.
Poplar, «L*k or Hickory
Lumber ta ed 10 fill orders nl special rales.
J, T. KENDRICK.
February 21, ’M2. ‘ mtj
CHARLES S. DuBOSE,
<! T’J’Of* J ' h\ s Vs T r- <? iy g
dVarivuton, Oa.
Will practice in all Gib Courts of the Northern,
Augusta oo Middle Circuits.
11. < ’- RONEY,
'Morani at Auto,
' w/ TItO.MHO V, U.t.
Will practice in tin* Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits,
no 1— 1 y
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.,
Have Removed to their
IVew iron Front Store,
JJIIOAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA
aprlOtt
J A.TIES 11. HULSEY’S
Steam Dyeing and Scouring
ESTABLISH dVEEISr X?,
128 Broad :•<*., Aiigu*fa, U a.
Near Lower M-irR ' Brulje Bank Building tor tno
Dyeing and Cleaning
of dresses, shawl-. ’ -'Mb . ■■ is. Also gen
tlemen’s coats, vests and pants dye i
in the bewt manlier.
rinoes. delstne, alpaca, rep goopa and jeans dyed
and finished •.■ i .;.d to those dene ill New York.
ir5T Orders bjr Express promptly attended to.
Augusta, Ga. apr. .bad
Abound canvassing Look o', tire PICTORIAL
HOME BIBLE, containiii-: rWm _lw.rßTß.v
--noxs. With a couipreheusive Cyclopedia cxplana
torv of the Scriptures. I. Ea.'-h and German.
3 Vji. FLINT & CO.. I’Uila.. I’a.
M O'DOWD & CO
GUO CEE,
IST ID
Commission ittmljant,
No. 284 Broad Street,
GEORG 1.1.
IT AS Oil b ind and for sale, at the lowest market
tl prices, for cash or good factor's acceptances,
payable next Fall, a full scock of
Choice Groceries & Plantation
Supplies,
among which may he found the following :
50 hhds. D. 11. bacon sides
10,000 llm P. S. shoulders
10 casks hams
100 packages lard
200 boxes cheese
300 bbls flour, all grades,
300 sacks oats
40 “ seed rye
100 bbls. Irish potatoes
100 packages new Mackerel Nos. 1, 2 and 3
100 ‘‘ extra mess Mackerel
10 bbls. buckwheat
100 chests tea all grades,
500 bbls. syrup—different grades
2i M) cases oysters—*l and 2 lb. cans
2 H) cases canned fmits and vegetables
300 cases pickles, all sizes,
50 lobsters, 1 and 2 lb. cans
200 gross matches
200 boxes candles
50,000 Charles Dickens segars
50,000 Georgia Chiefs “
130*000 our choice 44
200,000 various grades “
5,000 bushel corn
25 hhds. l)eni irara s Jgar
35 hhds. brown sugar
10 hhds. Scotch sugar
25 boxes Havana sugar
50 bbls. crushed, powdered and granulated sugar
200 bbls. e:c!ra 0 and A sugar
200 bags Kio coffee
50 ** I.egeiayra coffee
50 p.j ke-s old Government Java coffee
100 boxes No. I soap
200 boxes pale 44
750 boxes ste.r *h %
100 boxes soda
100 dozen buckets *
50 dozen brooms]
10 libl i. pure ilaker, whisky
50 bbls. Old Vall«?y whisky
200 bbls. ryo whisky, all grades
50 bbls. pure com whisky
20 bbls. brandy, gin and rum
10 quail; r casks imported Cognac brandy
8 (juarte.i casks Scotch and Irish whisky
20 qusrier casks Sherry, l'ortand Madeira wine
20 casks aii l and porter
10 casks Cooper's half and half
50 cases Champagne
•10 cases claret
50 cases Schnapps
100 cases bitters
200 boxes tobacco, all grades
lot) cases smoking tobacco, all grades.
jauSlyl
FURNITURE"
OF ALL IJ
V—
T-3* l A VT V a BOTH ES3 S,
(Furmorly C. A. Flult & C 0.,)
214 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
1 ,000 Nttplo & Walnut Bedsteads,
$5 lo $10!
We call the atteulion of purchasers
<o our Soli«PN\ r .dnut Chamber Suits for beauty,
Durability and Cheapness.
Our .Vlauufacturiug Department is stiU in opera
tion. Special orders wilt be promptly attended to.
Kepairs done in all its branches.
Upholstering Department.
Ifuir Clo'li, Euamulcd G’luth, Reps, Terry and
Springs,and ali artici-s suitab'efor uidnufacturcrs,
wo offer at Low Prices. juti3l mO
pH W. ARNOLD. CAPT. WVT. JOHNSTON
O. W. Arnold & Cos. 5
Grocers & Commission Merchants,
Thomson, - - - Georgia-
HAVE Oil hand and tor Sale at the lowest market
prices
CF.OICE FAMILY GROCERIES AND PLANTA
TION SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS,
j Among which may be found the following,
Bacon, Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
J.ard, Cheese, Mackerel,
Oysters. Pickles, Canitpri
Fruits, Soda, Tobacco,
and everything kept iu the line of a
I Firs! Class Grocery Store.
We Respecruliy invite our friends to
give us a call.
C. W. Arnold & CJo..
Thomson, Ga. ?.larch 13, ly
THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., MAY 1, 1872
foettg.
l'armefs* Girls.
Up in the early morning,
Just at the peep of day,
Straining the milk in the dairy,
Turning the cows away—
Sweeping the floor in the kitchen,
Making the beds up stairs,
Washing the breakfast dishes,
Dusting the parlor chairs.
Brushing the crumbs from the pantry,
Hunting for eggs at the barn,
Roasting the meat for dinner,
Spinning their stocking yarn,
Spreading the snow-white linen
Down on the bushes below,
Ransacking every meadow
Where the red strawberries grow.
Starching their cottons for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream,
Ivin sing the pails and strainer
Down in the running stream,
Feeding the geese and poultry,
Making the puddings and pics,
Jogging the little one’s cradle,
Driving away the flies.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
Beauty of form and feature
Thousands might covet to own—
Cheeks that rival rosos,
Teeth the whitest of pearls ;
One of these country maidens is worth
A seoro of your giddy girls.
A Yaukco < 'st j>i«iiCV; Ailveu
iur«.
There lived many years ago, on the
eastern shore of Mount Desert, a large
island off the coast of Maine—now a
fashionable place of summer resort—
and old fisherman by the name of Jed
ediah Spinnet, who owned a schooner
of some hundred tons burthen, in
which he, together with four stout
sons, was wont to go about once a
year to the Grand-Ran a (or the purpose
of case!;,: !’; cod-iish. The .mi' l , man
had five things about which lie loved to
boast— bis schooner ‘Betsey •Jenkins’
and his four sons.
The four sons were all that their
father represented them to be, and no
one ever doubted his word when he
said that their like was not to be found
for fifty miles around. The oldest was
twenty-two, while the youngest had
reached his sixteenth year, atid they
answered to the names of Seth, Andrew,
John and Samuel.
One morning a stranger called upon
Jedediuli, to engage him to take to Ha
vana some iron machinery belonging
to steam engines for sugar plantations;
the terms were soon agreed upon, and
the old man and his sons immediately
set about putting the machinery on
board. That accomplished, they set
sail for Havana, with a fair wind, and
lor several days proceeded on their
course without an adventure of any
kiud. One morning, a vessel was de
scried off flic starboard quarter, which
with some hesitation the old man pro
nounced to be a pirate. There was
not much time allowed them for the
vessel soon saluted them with a not
very agreeable whizzing of an eighteen
pound shot under their stern.
‘That means for us to heave to,’ re
marked the old man.
‘Then I guess we had better do it,
hadn’t we V said Seth.
‘Of course.’
Accordingly, the ‘Betsey Jenkins’
was brought up into the wind, and her
main boom hauled over to the wind
ward.
‘Now, boys,’ said the old man, as
soon as the schooner came to a stand,
‘all we can do is to be as coo! as possible,
and trust to fortune. There is no way
to escape that I can see now, but per
haps if we are civil, they will take such
stuff as they want, and then let us go.
At any rate, there is no use crying
about it, for it can’t bo helped. Now,
get your pistols and see that they are
surely loaded, and have your knives
ready, but be sure and hide them, so
that the pirates shall see no signs of re
sistance.’ In a few moments, all the
arms which the schooner afforded, with
the exception of one or two old mus
kets, were secured about the persons of
our Down-Easters, and they quietly
awaited the coming of the schooner.
‘One word more, boys,’ said the old
man, just as the pirate came round un
the stern. ‘Now watch every motion I
make, and be ready to jump the mo
ment I speak.’
As Captain Spinnet ceased speaking,
the pirate luffed up under the fisher
man’s leequarter, and in a moment
more the latter's deck was graced by
the presence of a dozen as savage look
ing mortals as eyes ever looked upon.
‘Are you captain, of this vessel V ask
ed the leader of the boarders, as he ap
proached the old mate.
‘Yes, sir.’
‘What isgiour cargo ?’
‘Machinery for steam engines.’
‘Nothing e’aef’ asked the pirate,
with a searching glance.
At this moment Captain Spinnet’s
eye jjanght like a sail off
to the soeUoWarid eafct’rd but not a
sign betrayed the' discovery, and while
a brilliant idea shot through his mind,
he hesitatingly replied :
‘Well, there is a little something else.’
‘Ha. what » it V
‘Why, sir, p’raps I hadn’t ought to
tell,’ said C&ptrdn Spinnet, counterfeit
ing the most extreme perturbation.—
You see it was given me as a sort of
trust, and it wouldn’t be right for me
to give it up. You can ta/ro anything
else you please, for I can’t help my
sel f.’ 1-
‘You are ae honest codger at any
rate,’ said theldrate ; ‘but if you would
give toil minmos longer, just tell me
what you’ve gftt.on board and exactly
where it lays.'
The sight! of a cocked pistol brought
the old o'an to he- senses, and in a dep
recating tone he muttered.
‘Don’t kill mc'slr, don’t ; 1 11 tell you
all. We've got forty thousand silver
dollars nailed lip iu boxes forward over
the cabin •bulkhead, Mr. Defore didn’t
suspect anybody would have thought of
looking for it there-’
‘Perhaps so,’ chuckled- the pirate,
while his eyes sparkle! with delight.
And then turnin' -to his own vessel, lie
ordered all but tl roe of his men to jump
on board the Yankee.
In aA w minutes the pirates had ta
ken off tiwAafelnis, and in their haste
to get at the silver dollars, they fonot
all else ; but not so with Spinnet; he
had hi. wits it work, and no sooner had
the hist oi fhrtiViiltUjUs disappeared be
. 10-, Hie a,- .yWy w Am he turned to
his boys, * ■
‘Now, boys, 'or yoUT lives. Set'll, you
clap yotir knife across the fore and peak
halyards, and you, John, cut the main.
Be quick, now, and the moment you
have.-dons'it, jutpp .aboard the pirate.
Andrew and Pup, "you cast off the pi
rate’s grappiingj arid then you jump—
then we will walk into them three chaps
i aboard the clipper. Now for it.’
No*sooner were the last words out of
the o'd man’s mouth than, bis sons did
exactly us they were directed. The
fore and main .halyards were cut, and
the two grapmngs •cast off at the same
instant* and is tire heavy gaffs came
rattling dowi) our heroes leaped on
board the pirate. The moment the clip
per felt at liberty, Ijer head swung off,
and before- tiro 'astonished buccaneers
could gain th;r deck of the fisherman,
their vessel ivaswnear half a cable’s
length to the leetivjprd sweeping grace
fully before the Mlind, while the three
men who had brertAleft in charge were
easily secured. A
‘Halloa, J there!’ shouted Captain
Spinnet, as the luckless pirates crowded
around the leegangway of their prize,
‘when you get-tliefn ’ere silver dollars,
just let us know, will you V’
Half o dozen pistol shots was all the
answer thd old man got, but they did
him no hat/m ; and crowding on sail, he
made for the vessel he had discovered,
which layidead to the leeward of him,
and which he now made out to be a
large ship. The clipper cut through
the water likeja dolphin, and in a short
space of luffed up under
the ship’s steijn, and explained ail that
had happened The ship proved to be
au East ludiaman, bound for Charleston,
having told, thirty men on board, a por
tion of whom 1 at once jumped into the
clipper and offered theirservices in help
ing to take the pirates.
Before dark Captain Spinnet was
once more within hailing distance of
his own vessel, and raising a trumpet to
his mouth, he shouted :
‘Schooner,lahoy l Will you quietly
surrender yjurselves prisoners if we
come on boaid V
‘Come anditry it!’ returned the pirate
captain, as lie brandished his cutlass
above his held in a very threatening
manner, whiih seemed to indicate that
he would figij: to the last.
But that Aa v his last moment; for
Seth, crouched below the bulwark,
taking deliberate aim along the barrel
of a heavy rifle, and as the bloody vil
j lain was in tin; act of turning to his men,
! tlie sharp crack of Spinnet’s weapon
rang its death peal, and the next moment
! the pirate captain fell back into the arms
lof his men With a brace of bullets
I through his heart.
I °
TEEMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
‘Now,’ said theold man, as he levelled
the long pivot-gun and seized a lighted
match, ‘I will give you just five minutes
to make up your minds in and if you
don’t surrender, I’ll blow every one of
you into the other would.’
The death of their captain, and withal
the sight of the pointed pivot gun—the
peculiar properties of which they knew
full well —brought the pirates to their
senses, and they threw down their weap
ons and agreed to give themselves up.
In two days from that time Captain
Spinnet delivered his cargo safely at
Havana, gave the pirates into the hands
of the civil authorities, and delivered the
clipper up to the government, in return
for which he received a sum of money
sufficient for independence for the re
mainder of his life, as well as a very
handsome medal from the Governor.
The New Dominion.
A Provincial Union —An Independent Na
tion-- Alliance Instead of Ailcgicncc.
Hamilton, Ontario, April G.--Hon.
Wm. McDougall, formerl)' o' member of
the Government of Ottawa, aid late
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, lect
ure!’, last night on the position of
Canada as affected by the relations be
tween England and the United States.
He stated that he had, while in England,
discussed the question with Cardwell,
with Mr. Adderly, the Under Secretary
for the Colonies in a previous Govern
ment, and the conclusion they had
come to was this :
That all the parties recognized the
change that had taken place in the po
sitiou of Great Brittain, and were unani
mously prepared in every possible v. ay
to meet the new state of things. lie had
been forced to the conclusion that the
policy was not to abandon the Colonies,
nor to act so as to draw them away from
the allegiance, hut to prepare them for
maintaining theii own position by
means of-their ’Own right hands, and
. fi.n-i-, ( ;onsi;ioua that if an attack
was levelled against them they must
depend tfitiiiily, if not altogether, upon
their awn Resources, and resist it; fail
ing in which, they must be prepared to
accept the consequences, whatever they
might be, which followed an invasion
and contest.
Speaking for himself, and speaking
freely, frankly and truthfully, he was of
the opinion that a union of these provin
ces was a preliminary step for the estab
lishment of a system of government iu
British America which would enable us,
when the moment arrived, to maintain
a separate and independent existence
among the nations of the earth. He
believed that that idea was present to
the. minds of mos;, if not all, of those
who took part in carry iug.out that great
and important change. But because
they foresaw that which they believed
must happen, because they took initial
steps to. put the country in a position to
maintain itself in ease of war, was it to*
be charged (as he had seen some of the
public press had charged,) that they had
proved themselves disloyal to the moth
er country ? that they had shown them
selves to be the of dangerous
measures, and that they should therefore
be politically opposed and condemned V
tie denied that they were open to
such condemnation, and he referred to
the phrase of LorkMon.ck about a ‘new
nationality,’ and Lord Lisgar’s declara
tion that alliance should now take the
place of allegiance, as well as to the
repeated observations of leading news
papers of England, to establish the fact
that what the public men of Canada
foresaw was based upon a correct un
derstanding of the opinion in the moth
er country. The whole drift of that
opinion was that connection with Cana
da was a source of embarassment, from
which the mother country should be
freed as soon as possible : and if English
statesmen and the English press dis
cussed the question so unservedly with
out being subject to impunities of dis
loyalty, it could not be charged against
public men in Canada that they were
wanting iu loyalty because they recog
nized the actual position of affairs.
The speaker’s remarks were frequent
ly interrupted by applause.
The history of gas light dates only
buck to 1792, when in England Wil
liam Murdoch lighted his own dwelling
with gas. In 1802 a machine shop,
and in 1805 a cotton factory were simi
larly lighted, it was not until 1810
that a company got a charter for its
Manufacture. In ISI3 Westminister
bridge was lighted, and ISIS Guildhall.
The bitter end—the last half itch of
a penny cigar.
Ijcatlii.r Cloth Fabrics.
The manufacture ol artificial or leath
er cloth has now become of much im
portance abroad, and some valuable im
provements have been made in the pro
duce ion, and also in the quality and
usefulness of the fabrics. It is claimed
that while this article possesses all the
qualities of leather in great strength
and durability, it has special advantages
of its own. such as complete imperme
ability to water, a flexibility and soft
ness equal to a woolen fabric, arid great
cheapness compared with real leather.
The material used iu this manufact
ure varies according to the kin I of
imitation leather that is desired. Thus,
for cali-s/cin, a very thick kind of cottom
fabric is weed ; fine calico or linen is
used for water-proof material—the pro
duct being as Water-proof as india-rub
ber itself, ufM alpaca, silk, cloth, or
common cotton for boots and shoes,
book-bindings, harm ss, carriage furni
ture, and all the well known purposes
to which real leather is applied. The
pigment, used accomplishes the object
in a few hours, and is capable of being
tinted to any shade that may be vvianted
of green, red brown, black, blue'; yel
low, &c., according to the use in view.
The fabric to be converted into leath
er, whatever it may be, and of any
lentil or width, is merely wound on
rollers, beneath a broad knife-blade,
which by its weight presses in ami
equally distributes the pigment pre
viously placed upon it. A hundred
yards may thus be done in a single
minute, and in this most simple appli
cation the whole manufacture begins
aud ends, excoept that three coats of
the pigment are necessary to perfect
the leather, and an interval of twenty
four hours must elapse between the ap
plications of each.
Foxes as Sheep Herders.— The
Stockton, Cal., Republican vouches for
the following story : People often won
der at the remarkable instinct displayed
by well-trained shepherd dogs, but
wlnit w.il tiiry say when we tell them
of a flock cl sheep that is guarded by
foxes alone. The story seems improb
able, but of its truth we have the most
undoubted proof On Whisky Hill,
four miles from Milton, may be seen al
most any day a large flock of sheep,
herded by foxes. These guardians of
the little lambs are three in number,
one a gray fox, and the other two ol the
species, known as the red fox. In point
of intelligence these novel shepherds
are said to greatly surpass the best
trained shepherd dogs. They perform
their W'.u'k well, arid from morning till
night are ever on the alert* The gray
one seems to control, and in a great
measure direct the actions us the other
two. A gentleman informs us that he
lately saw the gray fox pursue and at
tack a hog that had seized a lamb, and
was making ofi with it. The contest
was short and sharp, and resulted in
die hog dropping the lamb and beating
a hasty retreat. The fox picked up the
appearantly uninjured lamb, and carri
ed it back to the flock.
A fitting subject for patience on a
monument is the Esquimaux when in
winter he is hunting the seal. Having
ascertained where the seal is gnawing
beneath the ice for a breathing hole,
the hunter perforates the spot with a
slender bone rod, with a point at one
end and a knob at the other, which is
moved by the seal in coming to the
surface* This may occupy twenty
four hours. The hunter then builds a
wall ol snow four feet high to shelter
him from the wind. Seating himself
behind it, lie places by his side lis
spear-and lines. He must preserve the
utmost silence, that he may hear th )
seal at wor/c and not cause fright to the
animal. He even binds his knees to
gether with a thong to prevent the
rustling of his cljthes. And there he
sits for twenty-four-hours, waiting the
coming of the seal to the surface,
when he cautiously rises with spear in
hand, and the long sought-for seal is
his.
Grant’s Withdrawal Proposed.—
Tilton’s Golden Age has come to the
conclusion that the only way to pre
serve the Republican party is for Grant
voluntarily to withdraw from the field,
‘now, without further delay,’ and ‘to
notify his partisans that he will not be
a candidate at Philadelphia.’ It says
there are thousands of Republicans
j wli(> would not vote for him again,
! ‘even though lie should be jointly nomi
| nated both at Cincinnati and Philadel
j phia.’ The Golden Age adds: ‘lf
; Grant will not retire, nothing remains,
! but what Mr. Greeley styles the Cincin
j uati Convention and its ‘conseque'nees,’